On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 09:20:50PM -0400, Amy Fong wrote: > >I don't know about the Debian community, but *I* certainly will be > >extremely unhappy with this. Hungarian notation *removes* flexibility > >from the code, breaks badly in the face of complex type systems such > >as C++ offers, and provides little or no advantages if you have > >adequate tools (ctags/etags, decent compiler warnings, proper > >prototypes, etc.) I won't actually come to your house and kill you if > >you use hungarian notation, but the thought will probably cross my > >mind. :-) > > Same here (unhappy, no, not unhappy, upset) with Hungarian notation, 2 > space tab. Hungarian-style notations have their uses, but I stopped using them when I started learning C because frankly C is much more flexible and it really only adds to the confusion. I -LIKE- 2 space tabstop, but I also make sure that saved stuff uses spaces rather than tabs so people don't become amazingly confused with the results of my tabstops... => > Is there anybody who actually _likes_ hungarian notation and/or n != 8 space > tab? I'm basically trying to collect data points here (because those are > the only rules that I disagree with that they insist on). Ahh---I see! You're trying to convince them to let you not do it because we'd be annoyed by it then? ;> Plans within plans within plans! -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Culus thinks we should go to trade shows and see how many people we can kill by throwing debian cds at them
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